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Complex systems range from supercooled liquids to glasses , to proteins, to the brain, to societies. Do these systems share properties? It is likely that they do. A hierarchically organized energy landscape and a range of motions, connecting substates, are candidates. In this chapter we sketch some aspects of the physics of supercooled liquids and glasses. Starting with these materials may appear to be strange, but many properties of glasses and proteins are similar, and it is easier to recognize crucial properties of the dynamics in the less complex system. The information covering the physics of glasses is staggering. A Web search engeine has over 3 × 108 entries for “glass” and 7 × 106 for glass transition! We restrict the treatment to a few salient facts that are useful for understanding related phenomena in proteins. More information can be found in books and selected articles [1]–[6].
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Frauenfelder, H. (2010). Supercooled Liquids and Glasses. In: Chan, S., Chan, W. (eds) The Physics of Proteins. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1044-8_14
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